Notes on Contributors

Philip Boxer, BSc MBA PhD, brings many years of experience with strategy processes at all levels within the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. His practice develops clients' edge-driven capabilities for competing in highly networked environments, focused on increasing both their agility and their ability to scale learning across networks. He has published in the fields of organisational and social dynamics, management studies, and systems engineering. Philip is a member of ISPSO (ispso.org), OPUS (opus.org.uk), and the (Lacanian) Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (cfar.org.uk). He received a BSc in engineering from London University, an MSc in business administration from the London Graduate School of Business Studies, and a PhD from the School of Engineering and Information Sciences at Middlesex University. The focus of his research is on organisational defences against innovation (asymmetricleadership.com).

Susanne Broeng is Cand. Scient. Soc. and PhD fellow at the Institute of Learning and Philosophy, University in Aalborg, Denmark. She is trained as a family- and group-analytic psychotherapist, and certified as ECP and WCP holder. She is working as an organisational consultant and supervisor as well as her research. Her current research interests include change processes in public organisations; relatedness between employee-group-leader/organisation; and leadership in the present moment and negative capability.

Louisa Diana Brunner, PhD is a self-employed organisational and leadership consultant and executive coach, with a particular interest in family business, generation transition, and succession. She has a long experience in coaching and selection at Bocconi School of Management and for graduates at Bocconi University and in private practice. She is an independent researcher. She is a certified family business advisor and a Family Firm Institute mentor. She has been on staff in many Group Relations Conferences, and has published and presented